Belgrade Theatre has revealed further details of the spring 2023 season, which will include a series of high quality, co-created dramas, co-produced with nationally and internationally renowned companies and theatres.

Creative Director, Corey Campbell, will devise and direct the first home-produced show of his tenure from 24 April - 6 May. Big Aunty, is a darkly comic family drama that is alive with ideas and emotions that connect us all; offering a welcome opportunity to gather and reflect on challenging times, and how we can find a path to resolution.

From 10-13 May, the Belgrade will collaborate with Headlong and the Barbican in a ground-breaking experiment in sustainable theatre making. Directed first at the Barbican by Katie Mitchell, the UK premiere of Miranda Rose Hall’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, will subsequently tour across the UK without people or materials physically travelling. All aspects of the performance (on stage) will be powered by bicycles peddled in real time throughout the duration of the show. A local team will stage and perform the play at the Belgrade, within the parameters of the production blueprints created by Katie Mitchell and using the same renewable bike technology. Miranda Hall’s darkly funny and uplifting play explores what it means to be human in an era of man-made extinction. A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction and the subsequent tour, will see Mitchell draw on and further her work on the Sustainable Theatre? project, which she originally conceived with the support of the French choreographer Jérôme Bel and Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne.

This July sees the start of a new partnership between the Belgrade and Paines Plough.

Another major project this spring will be the HUBs Festival - a selection of new theatre pieces, curated by the Belgrade’s newly formed Youth Forum, and performed by groups of all ages from across the entire participation programme. All the work will be inspired by themes from the Belgrade’s co-production of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead with world-renowned company Complicité (19-22 April).

Other partner work includes Mojisola Adebayo’s Family Tree, in co-production with Actors Touring Company, (10-18 March), Pilot Theatre’s brand new stage adaptation of Manjeet Mann’s celebrated novel Run, Rebel (21-25 March) co-produced by the  Belgrade Theatre, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Derby Theatre and York Theatre Royal, and a brand new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, co-produced with Leeds Playhouse (25-29 April).

The full spring season also includes an eclectic mix of music, comedy, family entertainment, and musicals. Tickets can be booked here: belgrade.co.uk.